Ocracoke in numbers
- Coordinates
- 35.1146, -75.9810
- Elevation
- 1 m above sea level
- Population
- 948
- Region
- North Carolina
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 431 km away
What time is it in Ocracoke, North Carolina, United States
On this page you will find the exact local time in Ocracoke, North Carolina, United States, in the America/New_York time zone (−4).
Ocracoke, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/New_York
Local time in Ocracoke
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Ocracoke, North Carolina.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:12 AM Solar noon 12:50 PM Sunset 6:29 PM Daylight 11 h 18 min Night 12 h 42 min Civil twilight 6:46 AM – 6:55 PM
Weather in Ocracoke right now
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Ocracoke and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 27960
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in North Carolina
- Charlotte 911 311
- Raleigh 482 295
- West Raleigh 338 759
- Greensboro 285 342
- Durham 257 636
- Winston-Salem 241 218
Same time zone — America/New_York
- New York City United States
- Brooklyn United States
- Queens United States
- Philadelphia United States
- Manhattan United States
- The Bronx United States
Nearby places
- Pamlico Shores — 0.6 km
- Oyster Creek — 0.6 km
- Sound Shores — 0.8 km
- Jackson Dunes — 1.2 km
- Widgen Woods — 3.7 km
- Portsmouth — 9.0 km
Time and daylight in Ocracoke
Today the sun comes up at 7:12 AM in Ocracoke and goes down at 6:29 PM. Daylight measures 11 h 18 min.
Nothing changes on the clock between Ocracoke and neighbouring Pamlico Shores or Oyster Creek.
1 postal code covers the territory of Ocracoke.
Ocracoke runs on America/New_York, which sits UTC−4 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: Yes.
Questions and answers
- Under which time zone does Ocracoke fall?
- Ocracoke falls under America/New_York, with an offset of −4.
- Are daylight saving rules used in Ocracoke?
- Daylight saving time in Ocracoke: Yes.
- How early does the sun rise in Ocracoke?
- The first sunlight comes at 7:12 AM.